News and anaylisis from the Leading Light Communist Organization
(new-power.org) The Times of Israel reports: "In a video uploaded to YouTube Monday by the Executive Sharia Council in the eastern Daraa Region, an Islamic court established by Al-Nusra in southern Syria, Sharif As-Safouri, the commander of the Free Syrian Army’s Al-Haramein Battalion, admitted to having entered Israel five times to meet with Israeli officers... Continue Reading →
[The masses of Bangladesh suffer terrible oppression by capitalism. Revolution is the only solution --NP] Bangladesh garment workers demanding wages clash with police DHAKA (Reuters) – Bangladesh police used water cannons and teargas on Thursday to disperse hundreds of garment workers staging a hunger-strike to demand back-pay and a holiday bonus. The authorities also detained... Continue Reading →
[The USA has bankrolled and trained deathsquads across Latin America, including Mexico --NP] Mexico 'dirty war' crimes alleged (BBC) The Mexican government and military committed "crimes against humanity" in the so-called "dirty war" against left-wing rebels, a leaked report says. The report was prepared for current President Vicente Fox but has not been released. A... Continue Reading →
[USAID is a CIA tool. People need to understand this. --NP] Our men in Havana: US used young Latinos to foment revolutionary moods in Cuba (RT) The US secretly sent young Latinos to Cuba to trigger the political unrest, says a new leaked report. The ‘traveling spies’ working undercover within health and civic programs were... Continue Reading →
[Sometimes the imperialists let a little too much truth slip --NP] On the Times of Israel article "When Genocide is Permissible" (Vox) The English-language Israeli publication Times of Israel today published, and then quickly deleted, a blog post by the writer Yochanan Gordon with the extremely inflammatory headline "When Genocide is Permissible." The post does not explicitly... Continue Reading →
[The injustices of capitalism and imperialism never end. Third World migrants the targets of horrible brutality even in Europe. -- NP] Greek court acquits farmers who shot 28 Bangladeshi strawberry pickers (theGuardian) A Greek court's decision to acquit local farmers who admitted shooting 28 Bangladeshi strawberry pickers when they dared to ask for months of... Continue Reading →
[Roughly a quarter of Palestinians are Christian. The US-financed genocide by Israel against the Palestinians is not just a war on Muslims. It is a war on all Palestinians, including Christians. This fact should be raised to those in imperialist countries with Christian populations. --NP] Gaza: Catholic Church told to evacuate ahead of Israeli bombing... Continue Reading →
Why the Islamic State has no sympathy for Hamas (AlMonitor) Most of today's Salafist jihadist movements have no interest in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, for the time being regarding it as irrelevant. Instead, their call is to engage in intense, bloody confrontations involving bombings, executions, and suicide attacks against governments headed by Muslims and against Muslim... Continue Reading →
[The imperialist media portrays the current conflict as one where the Palestinians are refusing peace. The reality is that numerous reasonable peace proposals have been on the table for years. All rejected by Israeli. Israel continues to reject peace because Israel aims at complete genocide of Palestine, the complete theft of all Palestinian land. --NP]... Continue Reading →
Interview we conducted with Black Panther Steve Struggle in 2010 (new-power.org) This is an old interview we conducted with our good friend Steve Struggle in 2010. We happened to stumble onto it on youtube. Steve is an ex-Black Panther Party member who witnessed the degeneration of the Panthers. We conducted the interview under another organizational... Continue Reading →
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